Set 6 Q28

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Set 6 Q28

by arocks » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:22 am
I got the correct answer but was wondering if there was a shorter approach. It took me a while to get this...

Last Sunday a certain store sold copies of Newspaper A for $1.00 each and copies of Newspaper B for $1.25 each, and the store sold no other newspapers that day. If r percent of the store’s revenues from newspaper sales was from Newspaper A and if p percent of the newspapers that the store sold were copies of newspaper A, which of the following expresses r in terms of p?

A. 100p / (125 – p)
B. 150p / (250 – p)
C. 300p / (375 – p)
D. 400p / (500 – p)
E. 500p / (625 – p)

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by arocks » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:07 am
Perfect. I used the same approach. Thanks.